In the new academic year, 11 thousand Tatarstan schoolchildren will be taught entrepreneurial competencies under the national project
Since 2022, 23,100 students of grades 5-7 have been trained in Tatarstan as part of the implementation of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship". This year, the School Business Start program will cover 11 thousand children from Kazan, as well as small towns and villages of the republic.
"As a result of the program, we received a lot of positive feedback: both from teachers and from children and their parents. The training program is really very interesting, rich and informative. We invite various specialized experts, including active entrepreneurs, who tell the guys in the first person what a business is and what knowledge and skills its owner should have," said Natalia Kondratova, First Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Classes at the first stage of the project will be held in the format of a business game and will cover schools in Kazan, as well as small towns and villages of the Republic of Tatarstan. Students who successfully cope with the business game will receive in-depth training in theoretical and practical entrepreneurial skills in the next stage of the project.
Before the New Year, students will participate in a charity school fair, followed by a business case championship. The final meeting of school business companies is scheduled for spring 2025. The winners of the republican project will travel to Moscow and visit the Skolkovo Technopark.
The organizers of the School Business Start project were the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan, the regional Center "My Business" and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan. The program is implemented within the framework of the National Project "Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative".